JAGS(1)

💖 JAGS(1) 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for jags, and yes i'm about to make MCMC sound cute, watch me ✨

✨ NAME ✨

jags — just another gibbs sampler 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

jags [options] [scriptfile]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okok so here's the tea: jags is a program for analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation, and it is not wholly unlike BUGS. iykyk 💅

and here's the part that changes literally everything about how you use it:

• if you hand it a scriptfile argument, jags starts up in batch mode 🏃♀️
• otherwise? it starts in interactive mode 🫶

that's it, that's the vibe check.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

jags accepts the following options, and there are literally two of them so you have zero excuse not to memorize both:

• -d, --debugger=NAME — runs jags through the debugger called NAME 🐛
• --debugger-args=ARGS — passes ARGS as arguments to the debugger 🫡

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Martyn Plummer <martyn_plummer@sourceforge.net> 🌟
• This manual page was contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, but may be used by others 💖 (so generous, we love to see it)

k bye bestie, go sample some chains 💜 this icon of a page is brought to you by IARC, dated June 2010, and it lives in the JAGS(1) section of the manual. periodt ✨🎀